Jill Lepore Quotes
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.
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I came to Miami for the first time during the winter, and naturally, I fell in love with the weather.
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I dream a world in no one feels the need for or fear of predatory behavior, in which each of us walks with the knowledge of how beautiful - and valuable - is each human life.
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Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.
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Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.
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Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
